Summary
Christian Hansen is a Technical Leader with eight years of professional experience and a long-standing background in parallel, distributed, and scientific computing. He has shipped production C and Python systems at Cisco and Coho Data, and earlier built storage and HPC software in C, C++ and Ruby at NetApp, Cray, and research labs. Christian excels at performance tuning, heterogeneous computing, and middleware for grid and cloud environments, combining low-level systems expertise with pragmatic engineering practices. He is comfortable across Linux/BSD toolchains, scripting and RESTful integrations, and has a track record of moving research ideas into production-grade implementations. Based in the Greater Ottawa area, he brings both academic grounding (MS Computer Science, BA Mathematics) and deep hands-on experience in high-performance and storage software. An understated differentiator is his consistent focus on tooling and performance measurement—enabling teams to reliably scale complex distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of Oregon
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Portland State University